In recognition of World Water Day on Wednesday the Butchart Gardens has banned the sale of single-use plastic water bottles.
The Brentwood Bay tourist attraction is encouraging visitors to BYOB, bring your own bottle, to fill at one of four double-filtered water stations.
Each water station has a drinking fountain, bottle filler and a doggy water dish.
The move will eliminate 80,000 single-use plastic water bottles each year from the environment, it says.
“With this initiative we aim to drive awareness of the serious threat plastic poses to our environment, in particular single-use plastic water bottles,” said Bob Parrotta, Director of Food Services for The Butchart Gardens.
For those people who forget to bring a water bottle, the gardens will sell reusable keepsake water bottles for $3.95.
